Sauvallea

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Sauvallea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Commelinales
Family: Commelinaceae
Subfamily: Commelinoideae
Tribe: Tradescantieae
Subtribe: Thyrsanthemineae
Genus: Sauvallea
C.Wright
Species:
S. blainii
Binomial name
Sauvallea blainii
C.Wright
Synonyms[1]
  • Commelina blainii (C.Wright) Woodson

Sauvallea is a

endemic to Cuba
.

The species is believed to be

The genus name of Sauvallea is in honour of Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle (1807–1879), Cuban botanist and expert in molluscs.[4] It is not known what the Latin specific epithet of blainii refers to.

It was first described and published in Anales Acad. Ci. Méd. Habana Vol.7 on page 608 in 1871. Plants of the World Online note that Sauvallea C.Wright, is a synonym of Sauvallia C.Wright ex Hassk.[5]

It was placed within subtribe Thyrsanthemineae, due to its solitary spathe inclosing a single flower. It also has six, equal, filaments bearded (as part of the stamen) and subequal petals. Specimens exist at the Missouri Dunn-Palmer Herbarium.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  3. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Brian Groombridge (Editor) Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth’s Living Resources (1992) , p. PA223, at Google Books
  4. . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Sauvallea C.Wright | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  6. ^ Hertweck, Kate L.; Chris Pire, J. (2014). "Systematics and Evolution of Inflorescence Structure in the Tradescantia Alliance (Commelinaceae) 1,2,3 and". Systematic Botany. 39 (1): 105–116.

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